The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on Friday, as anger grew among local residents over what they say as a government failure to prevent bloodshed.

The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 148 people at a college in northeast Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said on Friday.

The body of city businessman Sudarshan B Nagraj, who was shot dead in Kenya`s Westgate Mall terror attack, was brought here on Saturday and consigned to flames, according to the victim’s elder brother.

American Katherine Walton grabbed her three young daughters and dove to the mall`s tiled floor. Later, a terrorist gunmen skinny, small, with a huge gun looked into Walton`s eyes but didn`t shoot. She and the girls, as Walton put it, were hiding in plain view, yet they weren`t seen.